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| | cosmicchemist.com

Dissociative electron attachment (DEA) is the process wherein an electron attaches onto a molecule and causes it to dissociate and / or fragment. The sizes of the molecules chosen to undergo DEA are comparatively enormous to the size of the attached electron (remember, electrons are tiny, tiny substituents of atoms, which in turn, bind together...
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An innovative way to image atoms in cold gases could provide deeper insights into the atoms' quantum correlations.
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| | thinking-about-science.com

Before you read this, I suggest you read post 25.1. In post 25.1, I started to describe how the valence bond theory explains how carbon and hydrogen atoms are joined in molecules of ethane, ethene and ethyne (see picture above). My purpose was to introduce the concept of hybrid orbitals. In this post, I am...
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| | 4gravitons.com

Merging quantum mechanics and gravity is a famously hard physics problem. Explaining why merging quantum mechanics and gravity is hard is, in turn, a very hard science communication problem. The more popular descriptions tend to lead to misunderstandings, and I've posted many times over the years to chip away at those misunderstandings. Merging quantum mechanics...
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